Rob, how about storing the full paths of the images in the database and inserting them
into your HTML pages? That would also cut down on your DB size a little!
--Chris
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 04:51:07 Robert Hazeltine wrote:
> Hi
> I am working on a project whereby all the relevant data is stored in the
> Mysql database and then when required the data is compiled into
> a web page.
>
> I have all the text data working properly, but cannot figure out how
> to display the image BLOBS I have created at the same time, or
> being able to format them within the appropriate HTML tags.
>
> I was hoping I could do something similar to (pseudo-code):
>
> # get the image from the database
> $image = "select image from table where id = foo";
>
> # display the image in HTML
>
> <IMG SRC = "$image">
>
>
> I tried many different ways of getting to this, but none of them
> work. I found an example in a news archive somewhere that lets
> me display the BLOB direct from the database, but it requires that
> I pass a lot of the information about the file (content/type &c)
> myself and it does not let me do any proper formatting on the images
> layout and nor can I display text in the browser at the same time.
>
> Given that I have my image BLOB properly accessible in the database,
> and I can already pop out any arbitrary text as I wish, what do I
> do next for images?
